 We just made these two inexpensive solar lanterns in about 30 minutes and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we, and we have a new video each week. This week, me and Pockets are putting together some lanterns getting ready for Paul Revere's midnight ride. Well, I don't know about the midnight ride, but we are going to make some lanterns, some solar lanterns this week. It's summertime and we like sitting out on our porch and we have a standing post with a little solar lantern on it. Super cute. So now we want some on our stairs to kind of light up our walkway a little bit. So we're going to show you how to build those. They're going to be super quick, super easy and pretty affordable. Oh yeah. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed a solar light because we're making a solar lantern. Well, we're going to make two of them. So we have two solar lights. We're going to make a 12 inch and an 18 inch. So what do we need? So we're going to need some one inch dowels. We have a couple of 36 inches. We're going to cut them in half. Those are 18 inches and we needed some three eighths inch dowels because we're going to need a little lip to set this solar lamp on to. And then we found these cute little popular one inch dowels already cut at 12 inches. This is what makes this project so easy is that these are already cut. So you only have to make a few small cuts. So if you're itching for a project with your pocket saw, this is like the perfect little quick and easy afternoon project. Anytime I have to make less cuts is a win in my book. We also needed some brad nails. These are inch and a half and some glue. And I think that is it. I think that's it. Step two, we're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to start by cutting this 36 inch one inch dowel in half. We need four 18 inches. We're going to make all of these cuts with my friend, your friend. My pocket saw. Safety first, Garrett. Safety first, Kim. We're going to cut 12 of these one inch dowels down to three and seven eighths. But I'm going to use a piece of scrap wood as a stop block so that they're all exactly three and seven eighths. And we're only doing them three and seven eighths because these are 12 inch pieces and we want to get three out of them. So you can't get four because of the width of the blade. So we'll get three and seven eighths. Now we're going to cut two of the three eighths inch dowels down to three and seven eighths and then two at three inches flat. Step three, time to assemble it. We're going to make two frames that kind of look like this. And then we're going to pin those two frames together with some small pieces again. Super easy. Super easy. Let's make sure all these little pieces land in the same spot. I'm going to draw a line first. So we have one that goes at the top and we're going to have one that goes a little bit down and I'm going to use one as a spacer. I'm going to turn them all one side. Now why are you doing this? That way I'll know on two sides where that little brace should land. Now let's pin them together. I'm going to try to make sure it's this way. Little dab will do. A little dab of glue. Don't get crazy with the glue like I just did. That might be a little too much. So I use a little smidge of glue. Now we're going to hit it with a one and a half inch brad. The nail, not the guy. That's it. Are you going to put the little frame in now? I want to look and see like for this one. Do I want to set it in there? Do I want to set it on top? Maybe I just leave it on top. Do we set it flush? Do we set it up on top? Does it go a whole other level down? What do you think? I'm saying it sits on top. I think it'll look kind of cool sitting just up on top. Just like a little lantern on top? Yeah, like a little lantern up on top. All right, I like it. So we're going to put the little three and seven eighth inch piece right in the lip. Two of those. And then we're going to put this little three inch piece right in there. That's because the little solar lanterns that we have chosen are the exact width of this opening. So it needs just a tiny little lip to hold it. Paint. I'm going to go ahead and fill each of these little nail holes with some wood filler and any little gaps that I might see. It looks pretty tight, but we're going to do that and then let it dry and sand the little holes there before we get ready to paint. Now we paint. We're going to use the Country Chic Simplicity. Just throw a quick coat on here. Yeah, the great thing about these is they're so versatile. You can stain them. You can paint them. We talked about lots of different paint schemes, but settled on something pretty universal. We're going to do white. We're going to add a coat of this antiquing wax right over it to give it that distressed look. Yeah, that way we don't actually have to distress it. Yes. Now we're just going to slap them up, flip them, and rub them down with little wax. Little antiquing wax. What he means is... I'm going to give it a little dab. A bigger dab. A harder dab. It's been a minute. Don't worry. I'm going to rub it off and just hit some of these pieces, right? Corners and stuff. You want to do it? Yeah, more than that. No, I don't really know what I want to do. Yeah, I want it a little more. Yeah. Yeah, don't be afraid of the wax, Garrett. Be one with the wax. Yeah, I'm liking it. I'm liking it. Where's my little buff cloth? I neither. Wonder if I can just use this paper towel here. Yeah, looks like I found that thing out in the garage. Yeah. All right. Brand new, super old looking. Yeah, I wanted that distressed look. I got it. All right, so to finish up this paint job, we are going to add... Where's that? Top coat. So you can spray this with polycrylic, but I'm going to add some tough coat on this. Tough coat. This makes it so this is great for things like the top of a table where you might have... A lot of wear and tear. Yes, a lot of wear and tear. These are going to sit outside and also sit on the ground. So I'm hoping this top coat, top coat, tough coat is going to add a nice layer of protection on these. So I'm going to go ahead and add that. TC, TC. Now we add the accent. Well, we're just going to put the light in the top. That's really all that's happening. Well, not just put the light in the top. This is what's going to make it lantern. This is like the accent. This is the main thing and the whole thing. Time to add the accent. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. We have a little a little nub at the bottom of this thing. So we're going to cut that off and then just drop it in there. This little fiskersaw is so great. I love this little thing. Yeah. Can you see them lighting up? I don't know if you can see. Well, we're going to go take some, show you some pictures right now. What do you think? Super easy, right? Crazy easy. A couple of cuts. It's a little bit of glue. A few nails. Well, and you can make them just different sizes. You see all we did was change the size of the arms, the legs here. I want to make a third one. I really have time and I only bought two of the lanterns, but I want to make like a six inch version and have it as like a tabletop version. I think they're so cute and you can display three of them together. How cute would the third one be? Yeah, without the paint, this only took a couple of minutes. I'd say 30 minutes to put these together and then the rest of the time was probably paint and waiting for the stuff to dry. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing a complete the whole project in an afternoon. Just pump these out. Great. Big thanks to our patrons. We love you guys. Oh, were you going to say something? That interrupts you. That's fine. I was just going to say they would make great gifts or make great accents for weddings. It's wedding season. Oh, yes. You could put these on tables because you can add little things, flower and greenery on the inside of these. Oh, good idea. Yeah. I know. I know. You're always with the ideas. But we're about out of time. So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show, we will see you next Friday where we'll do a building and make it again. Or you can join us on Tuesday afternoons at four where we're always painting a new sign with a new design. So come check us out and hang out with us. New sign design on Tuesdays. It's like test cut Tuesdays. Yeah. It's out live. We do it live on Tuesday.